Directed by Efthemis Theou, the performance was inspired by the 2022 discovery of a papyrus containing parts of Euripides' lost plays Polyidus and Ino, unearthed during an archaeological excavation in ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

An ancient writing system confounding myths about Africa. Penny Dale - Journalist. 9 June 2025 at 11:01 am · 7-min read. Link copied. This sacred mask is etched with symbols of Sona, a sophisticated ...

A wooden hunter’s toolbox inscribed with an ancient writing system from Zambia has been making waves on social media. "We've grown up being told that Africans didn't know how to read and write ...

The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State ...

A theory that has some favor among linguists is that the Greek word for the pyramids ultimately comes from ancient Egyptian. One possibility is that the word comes from the Egyptian phrase ‘pr-m-ws’.

This is a close-up image of an ancient wooden Egyptian falcon. Researchers have found a way to reproduce the 5,000-year-old ‘Egyptian Blue’ blue pigment visible on the artifact, the world’s oldest ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

Egyptians also described the sky in texts that link it to a “Winding Waterway,” which some believe could be a name for our galaxy. The faint dust clouds that form the Great Rift are easy to notice ...